• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Oh the mental gymnastics, no not liking boot leather means not liking boot leather. Chinese or otherwise. I like countries living in peace. Taiwan wants to be alone then they should be. Why is it ok for China to threaten others but not the us? Why the double standards?

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      3 days ago

      The CPC has literally stated, for 70 years, unchanging, that they recognize that the country needs healing, not violence, and that the only way they want Taiwan to be reintegrated is peacefully. The only statements they have ever issued, for 7 decades, about violence is that they will respond to any attempt to create the conditions for an existential military threat. The conflict between the losers of the civil war and the winners of the civil war has consistently been an internal conflict that the CPC fundamentally understands as something that must be resolved through peace and dialog. It is the US that has decided that Taiwan should be an unsinkable aircraft carrier, a staging area of US missiles, and part of the USA’s Pacific Kill Chain.

      China has NEVER threatened military violence against the people of Taiwan. They have only ever demonstrated their military readiness to fight against US and European military build up in the province. Which of course has a long history, that you are probably aware of but can’t integrate into your worldview because you are smothered in Yellow Peril propaganda.

      China hasn’t dropped a bomb in a conflict since 1989 - that’s 37 years. Meanwhile the US continues to say that they must “contain the threat of China” and they are building alliances in the region to “address the threat of China” while they literally destroy entire countries and commit acts of terror and war crimes wherever and whenever they want.

      There is no double standard. There is one standard. The US is a mass murdering global beligerent. China is not. Defending against the USA is not the same as developing a kill chain to threaten China on the other side of the world. If China was doing the same things the USA was doing, then I would have a double standard. But China is not deploying missile systems and building air bases and barracks on Cuba. It’s not building military alliances with Canada and Mexico, or building a proxy state in Quebec. It’s not sending entire carrier groups to patrol the Gulf of Mexico.

      There is no double standard here. China is the target of USA aggression. Framing China’s defensive build up and readiness as somehow equivalent is the same thing as saying that slaves slowly gathering an arsenal of weapons and building escape routes is the same thing as slave owners building an arsenal of weapons and building relationships with slave catchers.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Alright, clearly you are just regurgitating Chinese propaganda. Have a great life all the best to you!

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Never claimed to be, but at least i dont rabidly defend colonial nations and their shittiness, like you do lol. Anyways as I said before. Have a great life! I wish you all the best

            • freagle@lemmy.ml
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              3 days ago

              LOL, colonial nations. You’re a a goddamned anglophone from the EuroCentric world. You are projecting your heritage onto the political enemies of the Eurocentric empire.

              I disagree with the empire but I believe all of their lies